Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

ISTA DREAMED, AND KNEW SHE WAS DREAMING.

alabaster pillars carved with a tracery of vines and flowers in the Roknari style.

like a ghost.

Simile

Simile extended

Ista’s ghostly hands

The bird that nested there was fine and fair,

Penis?

Ewww

Chilling

She expected to taste blood, hot and sticky, and was almost shocked not to.

It had been one of those dreams. The real ones. There was no mistaking them.

What? The madness? Question

Simile

Whatever You want from me, I can’t do it. I’ve proved that before. Go away. Go away.

Haha probably like a show horse.

Haha yes! Mee too

she fell without resentment into a restful silence.

ghosts.

Simile

New ghosts

For such an old building, the ghosts here seemed few and tranquil.

Seeing such a spirit would mean some god breathed too near, that her second sight was leaking back—

the courtyard in her dream.

it was a real place.

certainly avoid it, all she had to do was crawl back to the castle at ...

Haha

Foix dy Gura

Dy Cabon

Haha romance!

She decided to return straight speech for straight speech;

Iselle

Isara

The selfsame brilliant girl who is now the brightest hope the royacy of Chalion has had in four generations!”

I will not beg the gods for any favor.”

“Lady. I have read.

realize—I have found reason to think, you see, that you may be extraordinarily spiritually gifted.”

you might reach a pitch of spiritual sensitivity, of fulfilled calling,

Haha

Which is it? They cannon both be a delusion, and forcefully cast aside. Question

Who? Question

Haha

Once, I was a saint.”

take your instruction first from the Chancellor dy Cazaril. He knows all the truth of it.”

Roya Ias’s

Lord Arvol dy Lutez,

Ista had been eighteen when she’d married Ias.

Orico.

“It was not me he loved in that way, but Ias.

the Bastard’s Order was the refuge of those to whom it was not given to conform to the fruitful relations between men and women

Haha

Ias’s father, Roya Fonsa,